Buddhist meditation, while attracting less popular attention than some other meditative disciplines, has given rise to a particularly rich literature in recent years. Despite differences in style and
Buddhist meditation, while attracting less popular attention than some other meditative disciplines, has given rise to a particularly rich literature in recent years. Despite differences in style and
This book explores practices of recollection in contemporary Argentina that helped define the nation’s approach to transitional justice in the first decades of the twenty-first century and enhan
Given its highly interdisciplinary approach, which combines cultural theory, social and intellectual history, political analysis, and textual criticism, this book serves as an ideal introduction for a
Trans/Acting: Latin American and Latino Performing Arts comprises fourteen new essays by leading scholars of Latin American and U. S. Latino theater as well as the performance script Mexterminator vs.
This critical study of John Banville’s major work considers the manner in which his fiction intersects with a variety of ideas relating to art. It also proposes that Banville’s fiction rep
In Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen, exciting new discoveries reveal Austen’s opinions on the state of the nation, Captain Cook’s death, and women’s right to comment on
D. S. Carne-Ross was one of the finest critics of classical literature in English translation after Arnold. More than four decades of Carne-Ross's writings are represented in this volume, which includ
Homer’s Odyssey is the first great travel narrative in Western culture. A compelling tale about the consequences of war, and about redemption, transformation, and the search for home, the Odysse
This book approaches, for the first time, Elizabeth Bishop’s work in multiple genres (her prose-like verse, her literary prose, her prose poems, and her letter prose) as a stylistic whole.
Poison's Dark Works explores the ways English writings about poisoning prompted new ways of thinking. Placing medical, legal, technical, and scientific texts in conversation with literary ones, th
Confluence Narratives: Ethnicity, History, and Nation-Making in the Americas examines a new literary genre that links the Americas together through three common historical experiences: colonization, s
The Global Wordsworth examines Anglophone writers who repurposed William Wordsworth’s poetry. By reading Wordsworth in dialog with J. M. Coetzee, Lydia Maria Child, and Jamaica Kincaid, Katherin
For too long the essential basis of George Oppen's poetry—the words on the page and their acoustics—has been ignored in critical discussions of his work. Challenging this neglect, Rich
Antonio Lopez Garcia’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting carries the reader on an interdisciplinary journey through painting, philosophy, art criticism, Spanish literature and film, hist
The Dark Eclipse is a book of personal essays in which author A.W. Barnes seeks to come to terms with the suicide of his older brother, Mike. Using source documentation—police report, autopsy, s
This remarkable second volume of Christopher Isherwood?s diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. These pages are crammed with
Two predominant critical assumptions about Samuel Richardson—that he is a feminist and that his novels aim to exert a straightforward didactic influence on readers—are challenged by this comparative s
Jane Austen and Comedy takes for granted two related notions. First, Jane Austen’s books are funny; they induce laughter, and that laughter is worth attending to for a variety of reasons. Second
